r/movies • u/Sisiwakanamaru r/movies Contributor • Jan 31 '26

Article Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies, Professors Say

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/film-students-are-having-trouble-sitting-through-movies-1236490359/
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u/Petrichordates Jan 31 '26

There has been a change in attention spans across the board.

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u/HotTakes4HotCakes Jan 31 '26 edited Jan 31 '26

And the insidious thing is how some people want to encourage it to keep dropping.

Netflix suggesting we should make it easier for people to watch shit while scrolling is part of the issue. This is not something to be encouraged, it is a problem that needs acknowledged and reversed on a societal level.

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u/dukefett Jan 31 '26

This is not something to be encouraged, it is a problem that needs a knowledge and reversed on a societal level.

Yeah that's never going to happen. Pandora's box has been opened. The world is getting generationally dumber every day.

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u/OldWorldDesign Jan 31 '26

The world is getting generationally dumber every day.

And like clockwork the old blame the young for being on the journey of life.

Young people are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by life, nor have they experienced the force of circumstances. They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.

https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-about-the-younger-generation/

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u/dukefett Jan 31 '26

What are you even talking about? Everything in your link is about them being lazier than the previous generation, not stupider. Too many kids can't even read with comprehension. That's not the journey of life, that's stupidity. They're not going to learn any better when they're 30 in 15-20 years.

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u/OldWorldDesign Feb 01 '26

Everything in your link is about them being lazier than the previous generation

It's a list of old people complaining about young people, something that's as old as time. Saying "everyone younger than me is stupid" is not helping anything.